Pondicherry Chronicles: Prologue
It’s been 78 days since I landed for the first time on Pondicherry, and that’s quite a few days for me. People who don’t know my profession will most probably like to ask why on earth I’m staying for so many days at one place outside my home town. Well, it’s impossible to attend the classes on university if I don’t stay here and yes, I’m a student of Pondicherry University. There’s a lot to tell on why I approached here to pursue a career but I’m not here to write about those now. Let’s focus on the very ridiculous, super plain-Jane yet sometimes hilarious tale of my life here.
Perhaps, if I was to describe the flow of life here in a single word, I would have said ‘ultra-boring’. Let me elaborate it a bit. What happens if you suddenly take a lad from his own place where he’s laden with his favourite people, friends, relatives; where he’s blessed with almost every kind of entertainment options a middle class family could afford in today’s world to someplace else in between some alien people speaking out-of-the-world languages and nothing but a mobile phone and a 17th century internet connection to keep connection with outer planets? The lad becomes a freak like me (I was a freak even before coming here, just got freakier here!). There’s practically nothing to do for me except attending university business, having some ridiculous foods and sleeping. Talking about food, I am NOT racially abusing someone but Tamil people don’t know how to use spices. It’s really, really hard for us north Indians to cope with the kinds of food they used to have here. Having my lunch and dinner is not an interesting thing now, it’s a kind of forced punishment which I can’t escape for the sake of my health. Well, I have to assess the experience so far being here on Pondicherry, in fact that is why I started writing ‘Pondicherry Chronicles’, then still there are some little funny interesting things from time to time those bring tiny amounts of enjoyment back on life. I will do my best to bring these twitches down here, as insanely as possible and more than they really are. P.S. I’m known among the friends and relatives circle for being an insane one with little knowledge of surroundings, be ready to become surprised if you don’t already know me!
